Antonio Faeti

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Antonio Faeti (Bologna, 23 July 1939) is an Italian writer, essayist, pedagogist, painter and illustrator, holder of the first chair of Children's Literature in Italy. Born in Bologna in 1939, after teaching for some years in elementary schools (during which he was the teacher of Massimo Iosa Ghini and the writer Grazia Verasani), he became the first full professor of the newly established chair of children's literature at the University of Bologna, in the department of educational sciences, where he remained in office until 2000. He later took a teaching appointment at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, where he teaches "Grammars of Fantasy".